kjer stands for "Kansas Jeremy." Yahoo screwed up things and added the rest. My good grrrl's name is "Julie Jane Russell Because She Ain't No Jack" but we just call her Julie and a host of nicknames (Mz. Demeanor, Land Shark, God Damn it!, etc.) BIO Born in North Dakota, learned to talk in Texas, early elementary years in southern Michigan near Lake Huron, brief time in Miami Beach (during WWII), back to Michigan. Parents divorced and we moved back to northcentral Kansas, which became my adopted home (although folks were 4th or 5th generation Kansans). At 18, joined USAF and served a year in Korea (after the cease-fire) and two in southern Japan; however, the only foreign country I served in was pre-Civil Rights movement Gulf Coast Mississippi! :) My Air Force job was control tower operator, then later worked in headquarters administration. Returned to Kansas, got married to wife number 1 and got a college degree (or two plus) and taught public school (8th Grade English) for 4 years. Adopted two mixed-race children (girl and boy). Spent a year ill and unemployed then began working for 25 years with mentally and multiply challenged folks in State institutions. Divorced after 25 years (amicably), endured 4 years of bachelorhood, then married wife Number 2. (Both fine women, by the way.) Retired for five years then got a part-time college instructor position, teaching Freshmen how to write at the college level for another five years, then retired a second time. Still with wife No. 2.
My first identity was as an artist. Later, also became a writer. Wrote about about nine multi-volumed science-fantasy novel manuscripts. Was given very encouraging rejections by editiors, but just never seemed to be what met their publishing needs. Gave up art (pastel pencils and fine-line ink drawings, mostly) for about 10 years due to operations on wrists that messed up coordination in fingers and created involuntary releases of my grasp. (It's very discouraging to spent 40 hours on a fine-line ink drawing only to drop the pen on it in the last hour or two.) Finally decided that avenue of expression was no longer viable for me and concentrated by creative efforts into writing. Then, about four years ago, I discovered the worlds of Bryce, Poser, and Vue and have been able to go back to my first love; art.
My association with Renderosity has been wonderful. In my gallery I get to combine both my creative loves: writing and art. I appreciate very much the responses and comments of viewers and thank those special few who keep comming back to my gallery. Interests in no particular order: 3D Graphic arts, writing (poetry and novels), photography, science-fiction and fantasy, science in general, astronomy (especially Mars and extra solar planets), ecology.
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Comments (12)
Thandaluz
Beautiful image. Composition well elaborated. The model is superb. The texture and reflexes spare comments. Congratulations.
RBlue
Nice attempt to use meshes to solve the Motion blur rotors. Another approach: If you have PS or even Gimp you could draw the props, do a radial blur and save as a PNG. Later using them as a UV material map on the disks as props. It's a little pre-work but I'm sure you would like the results. Cheers!
shadownet
Excellent image! The Mars Dirigible looks awesome! Thanks for sharing!
sackrat
Well done !
LudyMelltSekher
{@}~Hello my dear friend, Beautiful image, very impressive job! Congratulations!!! *** Hug and Happy Monday Luminous blesing. Ludy~{@}
RETIRED
MARVELIOUSLY WELL DONE. :-) IT WOULD BE AN ANSWER TO A DREAM TO ACTUALLY EXPERIENCE SUCH A FLIGHT.
Burpee
Think the POV is excellent here. I have a tut somewhere to create motion blur in Bryce...it's is really cool. Also downloaded a freebie motion blur. Lol, now I'm going to have to dig them out and see which looks better.
Django
You picked a fine POV here , the Propellors look a bit irritating tho,like wrapped in plastic
CrimsonDesire
Incredible work, awesome scene well done ^^
DAVARON
Excellent Image and Modelling, Bravo!!!
Eldeago
Nice job! And I did download it thanks!
NefariousDrO
Beautiful! Super model, and great terrain. I hear that one of the NASA robotic probes for Mars that they've considered is a Lighter Than Air vehicle, but are putting it off due to limitations of our current technology. It would be so cool to fly over Mars, though!